swa66 - 11:14 pm on Nov 6, 2009 (gmt 0)

The mode a browser is in (quirks, almost standard, standard [IE8 has a forth]) is determined by the doctype (and IE as usual does things differently). How different browsers interpret faulty code depends on the mode they are in.

Hence what's the doctype in both cases and is there anything in front of it (e.g a xml prologue)

validator:
Make it:

<!--QuoteBegin-username+Nov. 03 2007,14:26-->

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